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NAMA to make 2,000 housing units available for social housing

Two thousand housing units will be made available for social housing by NAMA to the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government in 2012 under a deal thrashed out yesterday. The homes will be set aside for people on social housing lists through leasing agreements…

Household charge – will you pay it? Is it worth it?

Property News

You can read my thoughts on it or go straight down to the bottom and vote immediately.... My 2 cents worth.... In this country we have a conundrum of taxes being collected centrally then distributed to localities. This naturally creates a subservient local government who…

Housing Charity calls for radical reform of rent supplement

Property News

Ireland’s leading housing charity Respond! is calling for radical changes to be made to rent supplement as the cost of the scheme has increased dramatically in the past number of years. Respond! Housing Association contends that rent supplement is an inefficient use of state resources…